Toy.



J. F. GILL 8: T. G. AVELING.

' TOY.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1909.

946,669, Patented Jan. 18,1910.

//v Vin/TOPS Anmsw, a GRAHAM co nmmumoemwzws. wnsmnumu n UNITED AT ENFFTCE.

JAMES FRANCIS GILL AND THOMAS CLIFFORD AVELING, 0F BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 19, 1909.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES FRANCIS GILL and THODIAS CLIFFORD Avnmno,subjects of Great Britain, residing at Central House, 75 New street,Birmingham, England, have invented new and useful Improvements Relatingto Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toys made to represent for example, human,animal or Vegetable forms or features, and has for its object to be ableto produce thereon at will an effect resembling the growth of hair,wool, leaves or the like, or a deposit of snow or frost.

The invention comprises the utilization of the well known reaction ofmercury on aluminium, and is characterized in this, that a part or partsor the whole of the toy is made of aluminium, and that for use with thetoy mercury is provided in a convenient form for application at anytimeto the parts of the toy on which the growth or deposit required.

In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings, Figure l is anelevation and Fig. 2 a section of one form of toy made in accordancewith this invention. F 3 shows a convenient form in which the mercurycan be applied.

The parta, attached to a base 6, is pro duced from a sheet of aluminiumshaped in the form of a grotesque or comic face. Portions of thefeatures may be painted, but portions as 0 (Z, (3 corresponding to thescalp, eyebrows and chin are left bare. On applying mercury to suchparts a hair like growth appears. The growth can be readily removed bywiping or shaking the toy, and can be reproduced at any time by thereapplication of the mercury. It is not necessary to rub mercury on thetoy every time the growth is required, for if the surface previouslyrubbed is scraped to expose a fresh metallic surface, a further growthwill appear. Two or three growths can thus be produced with oneapplication of mercury.

For convenience of manipulation the mercury may be amalgamated with tinand a nodule f of the same attached to a wire stem, handle or ring g. Orthe mercury may be contained in a small collapsible tube or a miniaturebottle made to resemble the tubes or bottles in which any known hairrestorer is ordinarily sold. If desired the solid amalgam of tin andmercury may be shaped to represent some familiar article such as abottle of hair restorer.

lVe desire it to be understood that our in vention is not limited to anyparticular shape or kind of toy, as a large number of shapes andvarieties in the forms of dolls, masks, efligies, models and otherrepresentations of human, animal or vegetable features or figures may beadopted; neither is the invention limited to any particular form ormanner in which the mercury is provided. By making the toy to representa country or other scene an effect resembling a deposit of snow or frostcan be produced.

We claim l. A toy comprising an aluminium portion, and a mercury portionwhereby on application to the aluminium portion a growth is produced onthe latter, substantially as described.

2. A toy comprising an aluminium portion, and a separate portionconsisting in part of mercury amalgam whereby on ap plication to thealuminium portion a growthi80 is produced on the described.

3. A toy comprising an aluminium portion shaped to represent a face, anda mercury portion whereby on application to the aluminium portion agrowth is produced on the latter, substantially as described.

4. A. toy comprising an aluminium por tion shaped to represent a face, aseparate portion consisting of mercury amalgam, and a ring on which saidmercury portion is mounted, substantially as described.

5. A toy comprising an aluminium plate shaped to represent a face, abase piece on which said plate is mounted, a nodule of mercury amalgam,and a ring on which said nodule is mounted, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES FRANCIS GILL. THOMAS CLIFFORD AVELING.

latter, substantially as Witnesses:

JOHN MORGAN, HARRY DAVIS.

